The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 18, 1946, Page 3

> MONDAY ay, MARC H 18, 1946 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN SPONGE FESTIVAL WEDNESDAY NI TIME'S A-WASTING _|FIVE CANDIDATES GO INTO FINAL STAGES OF GETTING “QUEEN” CONTEST VOTES By L.P.A., JR. ~ With Key West’s Sponge Festival drawing to a glamorous close, everyone is expectant, wondering who the Queen of the Festival will be. At a poll, based on the money turned in by the girls who have been selling votes, Miss Dolores Thorn- ley led with 235,000 votes. Next was Miss Gloria Ace- vedo, of the Rotary Club, and following her were Miss Shirley.Smith, of the Jaycees, and Mrs. Shirley Bolling. of the U.S.S. Gilmore. A “dark horse” entry has come into the picture in the form of Miss Charlotte Putnam, making the fifth candidate. As is the usual case in these contests, many of the votes are held back by the would-be queens so that a last minute rush to the polls is expected, with hundreds of dollars to be deposited to the credit of the various can- didates. Until the ballot boxes are opened tomorrow night at 10’clock, it is just about impossible to determ- ine who is actually leading in the queen:coptest, . Bob Pollock, Key West Stadium publicity chairiian’ who i3 | doing a bang-up job of publicizing the race, tells the public to be. there at 10 p.m. and see the expected last- minute ballot stuffing. At all events, every dollar is going to be given for down and drag-out fight. Lions Club is a very peppy organization and its: candidate has been taken around to various businessmen over town and they have hought her votes. So has the Rotary queen candidate. The | Jaycees, known for their youth and pep, are not too far rour OF THE Fry A (TES IN THE SPONGE FESTIVAL QUEEN CONTEST glance at the | behind and may make a last-minute spurt. mew img ob cted on the sundial at the home of Mrs. Juliqgn Marks at the | mente 1s: j The time is running short now with the balloting to ceas2 at | At all events ,every dollar is going to be given for Corenation to be Wednesday night at Bayview Park. Prograni la worthy cause because it wi Q ‘i arge, All money will gatoward making Rey West's Stectiun: | orthy cause because it will help to make the city sta- There is a tilth eatry, Charlotte Putnam, who is also in the o he@ve a cut made for the we She, is the “dark, horse’’ of ~ ROTARY CHOICE | a Sponge Festival Program Bayview Park Wednesday Evening 6:45 P.M. (Softball Diamond) Diamondball Game—Holsum Bread vs. Machinists. 8:00 P.M. (Band Stand) 1, Selection—High School Band. 2. Star Spangled Banner—Eva B. Gibson and Gerald Saunders. 3. | }Commui ee nity Church. 4. Selection—Key West High School Band. 5. Crowning of Queen of Festival by Paul G. Albury, Gen- eral Chairman, Festival Committee. 6. Selection—Key West High School Band. 7. Address—Honorable W. W. Demeritt, City of Key West. 8. Vocal Solo—Mrs. Eva B. Gibson. 9. Comedy Skit, Ike and Mike (Thomas Woody and John Esperdy). | | Mayor of the | ! | i 10... Violin Selection—Gerald Saunders, ll. Selection by Band. ‘ dium the beautiful field it should be. There is also go- | ing to be an attempt made to have the stadium for big leap baseball teams practicing down here. Key West tis the logical winter baseball grounds of big league {teams and it is a wonder that it has not been so before. : This will be one of the biggest tourist attractions and is | much better than having a horse race or dog race track ‘here. Besides this, it will be a stadium eich will be available to the sports youth of the city and will de much to emphasize clean play and wholesome body building. Now for the festival. It will be held at Bayview Park at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Gerald Saunders is pro- gram chairman and he has arranged a fine program, with bands and speakers and the final coronation of the queen, Key West’s. popular gift of beauty. Things are sort of slow at first in this Festival busi- ness but dow n the home stretch the candidates are really straining to come in first. Another big boost is the free trip to Miamiwhich will be given the queen and also the many beautiful presents w hich will be showered on her. asin rs MISS CLORA Sponge Fer. va! caronaten will i Se heed pie! ord wus teang tos ber curvacious, is the choice of the Rotary Club for the t, with voting closing tomorrow night at 10 o'clock. The uk Wednesday night. Miss Acevedo is a Key West High y bid for the queen designation. She has scores of friends On Stage Tonight Tonight the queen candidates are appearing at The Palace Theater between the first and second shows. Uills f it For A uceh.. , Each of the girls will be interviewed and presented © be given the lucky girl voted Queen of the Sponge Festival Veonbeihcatce nudicnuce.. (Thue pearance of the girls but there is expected to be some last-minute scrambling for votes before the deadline closes tomorrow at 10 p.m. But, anyway, here’s your chance to see the girls before the footlights in person | land in all their shining glory, which, believe me, | something. | times it is a wonder they don’t develop radar rays Here are the Gifts it-tapense-Paid Tour Lingerie by Aronovits t hey tes Waerre Handbag by Pearlman’s by Poll i s Style S K ippel «© of Pastion PPemere+ Tee ¢ fier Node Traveling Bag by Bernie Papy by Old Colony Permanent Wave Beauty Shop ”" Invocation—Rev. John E. Pickens, pastor of Poinciana’ will be the last public ap-| The girls have been photographed so many | [Junior Chamber of Commerce Choice — | * } 1 is wd IF THE JAYCEES HAVE THEIR WAY, Miss Shirley Smith will be queen of the Sponge Festival, {which will be held at Bayview Park this Wednesday night. Miss Smith is a graduate of Key ; West High School and has brown hair. She is third in the running thus far but a suspected hold- back ofivotes by the Jaycees may see her in a last- minute splurge if the snappy work of the Jaycees. in this sort of contest Tepeats itself. a LIONS’ CHOICE | LEADE RIN THE SPONGE FESTIVAL QUEEN CONTEST thus far is Miss Dolores Thorniey, Lion Club of Key West choice. Miss Thornley is of the statuesque beauty type and has blonde hat Her lead is based on the amount of money turned in Friday night but the actual lead in the contest is not known because there are thousands of votes. being held back for the expecte: last-minute plu S Thornley has graduated from Key West High School and is a pop war member of the s Here Are In Brief Rules On How to Vote for Queen Candidate of Your Choie* 1, You may buy the pink slips of paper direct from your queen candidate. . You can also secure white slips of votes from your mer- chants. Be sure and ask him| for votes when you go inio the stores tonight and to-| morrow. There are hundr of votes which are still in stores and which are not/4. Get going and get all the delegated to any candidate votes now out in the ballot as yet. 3. The pink slips cost 50c for) Doxes. One at the Straed 500 votes. In addition to tne| Theater, one at the Palace votes written in yourself on Theater, one at the Central Pharmacy, one at the Flor the pink slips of paper. the ida Motor Lines Bus Station queen sets extra credit for each bock of votes she turns and one at Poinciana Pharm- | acy. | in.